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Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.
Jack Nicholson
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Jack Nicholson
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 22
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I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.
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My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.
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I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
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